Index
significant defence relationships
fusion - a future alternative power source
terrorists, criminals and the world policeman
ensuring terrorists fail
are terrorist groups politically
relevant beyond their nuisance value?
Endnotes
significant defence
relationships
“A statement signed by India's defense minister, Pranab Mukherjee,
and the U.S. defense secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, in Washington on Tuesday
night [28/06/2005] said that the United States and India had "entered
a new era" and declared that the two countries' defense relationship
had advanced to "unprecedented levels of cooperation." ”
—
“ However, he also sensed a shadow of shared U.S. and Indian unease
over China lingering over the document, which he said would be the subject
of close scrutiny in Beijing. "China is like the ghost at the banquet
- an unspoken presence that no one wants to talk about," Mansingh said.”
[Quoted from iht.com]
“Strong exports and home-building has kept the US economy growing
faster than expected, official figures show.
Gross domestic product (GDP) rose at an annual rate of 3.8% in January-March
2005, above the initial 3.1% estimate and in line with the previous quarter.”
[Quoted from bbc.co.uk]
fusion
- a future alternative power source
Meanwhile fusion power takes an essential step.
Here is a useful summary article:
“The objective of the ITER machine is to demonstrate the scientific
feasibility of fusion, with extended controlled burn and, marginally, ignition,
for a duration sufficient to achieve stationary conditions on all time-scale
characteristics of plasma processes and plasma-wall interactions. To do
so the installation will produce 500 MW of fusion power during pulses of
at least 400 seconds.
“The Six international Parties that are co-operating to develop ITER
are: China, EU, Japan, Russia, South Korea, and the
United States. The negotiations take place under the auspices of
the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Canada was also a party to
the negotiations, but withdrew in December 2003.” [Quoted from finfacts.com]
Only by removing the dreadful dependency on fossil fuels
and developing enuf technology and power to bring the world to a better standard
of living will the pressures from primitivism and survival leave a route forward
to greater human civilisation.
terrorists, criminals and the world policeman
ensuring terrorists fail
Meanwhile, George W. Bush lays out the realities
to the primitivist jihadi and left cultists. Provided
link contains a javascript link to a video of explicit and timely speech
from GW Bush. Full
transcript.
“Some of the violence you see in Iraq is being carried out by ruthless
killers who are converging on Iraq to fight the advance of peace and freedom.
Our military reports that we have killed or captured hundreds of foreign
fighters in Iraq who have come from Saudi Arabia and Syria, Iran, Egypt,
Sudan, Yemen, Libya and others. They are making common cause with criminal
elements, Iraqi insurgents, and remnants of Saddam Hussein's regime who
want to restore the old order. They fight because they know that the survival
of their hateful ideology is at stake. They know that as freedom takes root
in Iraq, it will inspire millions across the Middle East to claim their
liberty, as well. And when the Middle East grows in democracy and prosperity
and hope, the terrorists will lose their sponsors, lose their recruits,
and lose their hopes for turning that region into a base for attacks on
America and our allies around the world.
“Some wonder whether Iraq is a central front in the war on terror.
Among the terrorists, there is no debate. Hear the words of Osama Bin Laden:
"This Third World War is raging" in Iraq. "The whole world
is watching this war." He says it will end in "victory and glory,
or misery and humiliation."
“The terrorists know that the outcome will leave them emboldened,
or defeated. So they are waging a campaign of murder and destruction. And
there is no limit to the innocent lives they are willing to take.”
—
“These are savage acts of violence, but they have not brought the
terrorists any closer to achieving their strategic objectives. The terrorists
-- both foreign and Iraqi -- failed to stop the transfer of sovereignty.
They failed to break our Coalition and force a mass withdrawal by our allies.
They failed to incite an Iraqi civil war. They failed to prevent free elections.
They failed to stop the formation of a democratic Iraqi government that
represents all of Iraq's diverse population. And they failed to stop Iraqis
from signing up in large number with the police forces and the army to defend
their new democracy.
“The lesson of this experience is clear: The terrorists can kill
the innocent, but they cannot stop the advance of freedom. The only way
our enemies can succeed is if we forget the lessons of September the 11th,
if we abandon the Iraqi people to men like Zarqawi, and if we yield the
future of the Middle East to men like Bin Laden. For the sake of our nation's
security, this will not happen on my watch.”
are terrorist groups
politically relevant beyond their nuisance value?
“What does it mean to win a war against guerilla insurgents? What
does it mean for a guerilla insurgency to triumph? The one answer that is
popularly advanced -- one that is implicit in Scoblete's argument -- is
that guerillas win if they simply remain in existence. This
site lists more than 383 armed guerilla groups extant in the world today.
Clearly all of them exist and just [as] clearly not all of them are triumphant.
There are, for instance 27 armed guerilla groups in India, 9 in Britain
(the most famous of which is the Irish Republican Army) and 11 in the United
States. Yet no one asks whether it is premature to declare the Westminster
Parliament in control of the Northern Ireland or wonder whether Los Matcheteros
will take over the Washington DC. And the reason is simple: while the IRA
and Los Matcheteros are still likely to exist in 2010, there is little or
no chance that these organizations will seize state power in all or even
part of Britain or the United States. Seizing state power over a definite
territory is the explicit objective of nearly every guerilla armed force
in the world today: if they can achieve that, they win. If they cannot achieve
that and have no realistic prospect of ever achieving that, they are defeated,
however long they may continue to exist." [Quoted from Belmont
Club]
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